Other Fiction Benson, E. F: Dodo, A Detail Of The Day. v1. 12 Oct 2015

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Edward Frederic Benson: Born : 1867 Jul 24 Wellington College, Berkshire, England: Lived :Chelsea, London, England (final): Died : 1940 Feb 29.

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POETS of all ages and of all denominations are unanimous in assuring us that there was once a period on this grey earth known as the Golden Age. These irresponsible hards describe it in terms of the vaguest, most poetic splendour, and, apart from the fact, upon which they are all agreed, that the weather was always perfectly charming, we have to reconstruct its characteristics in the main for ourselves. Perhaps if the weather was uniformly delightful, even in this nineteenth century, the golden age might retuTn again. We all know how perceptibly our physical, mental and spiritual level is raised by a few days of really charming weather; hut until the weather determines to he always golden, we can hardly expect it of the age. Yet even now, even in England, and even in London, we have every year a few days which must surely he waifs and strays from the golden age, days which have fluttered down from under the hands of the recording angel, as he tied up his reports, and, after floating about for years in dim, interplanetary space, sometimes drop down upon us. They may last a week, they have been known to last a fortnight; again, they may curtail themselves into a few hours, but they are never wholly absent.

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